skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don't a lot of older small craft—such as seaplanes—have radial engines?

Sure, lots of older aircraft (and lots of modern small aircraft) run on avgas or diesel, whether radial or inline. But Harbour Air's fleet is almost all turbines. I think they have just a single non-turbine aircraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_DHC-2_Beav...

>Viking DHC-2T Turbo Beaver

>Remanufactured Beavers by Viking Air, upgraded with a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34 680 hp (507 kW) turboprop engine.
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> The marketplace of ideas can't function if major factions reject truth-seeking in favor of blatant lies that are appealing for various other reasons (e.g. emotional satisfaction, ability to manipulate others, etc.).

The problem always becomes that few think their faction has this problem. Most people think that they and their side believe in the truth, and that the other side is peddling false information. In such an environment, "combating misinformation" inevitably becomes "trying to get everyone to agree with me."

In order to combat misinformation we'd probably have to start by combating the emotional commitment we hold to a certain narrative before we even examine all of the facts. That's not easy to do, but I imagine a good first step would be to cut out the constant 24/7 news cycle that a lot of people are addicted to and that seems to feed into these emotions. Twitter, of course, is a large source of this stuff.

Getting away from the news is an excellent way to start thinking more clearly.
Unless you're iSH and have to go to the court of public opinion and shame Apple into doing the right thing.

Apple was going to remove the app itself.
If you drag a Voice Memo to the finder you can find it under Get Info > More Info. This is handy because it syncs the memos from the iPhone back to the Mac for direct comparison. You can also see the it being negotiated in the debug console for both Mac and iPhone or in the Bluetooth Explorer audio graph for the Mac.
Google put limits in Android such that the Play Store is the only app distribution method that can implement background installation of apps, batch installations of apps and automatic upgrading.

F-Droid provides those features only if you're able to root your phone, which manufacturers actively try to stop users from doing. Also, rooting your phone opens it up to vulnerabilities and exploits.
How does Beeper avoid Instagram deciding that "your account has been compromised" and forcing you to change passwords? Unsurprisingly, Instagram seems to not be a fan of "illegitimate behaviour" (like bots / 3rd party clients).
Thank you so much for your reply and interest.

We have three different orders customers can put in. Pickup only, pickup/return and return only. Each order is 6.50 for delivery.

We are currently working on reducing the price to make it more affordable for everyone.

Our service is for those who are interest in print media. Secondly, our tax money goes into our local libraries so might as well utilize it. :)
It means the Google Play store is something they don't care that much about.
Homeless in LA also won't freeze to death if they sleep outside in January.
Blackjack in Blazor Part 2 – The C# Classes
Well written progressive reveal of thoughtfully designed homages.
As a viable option, I'd like to see absolute coordinates* added to HTML/DOM/CSS so that we can pick a layout engine of our own choosing on the server side. The server-side engine would do the layout calculations and then pass raw vector coordinates to the browser.

Trying to be everything to everybody has made CSS an inconsistent bloated buggy mess. If we had the above, we could have domain-specific layout engines that trim features and behaviors not needed by the domain, and reduce the problems of client/browser differences since the real work is done on the server. I'm not saying do away with existing browsers, just allow off-client layout engines when desired.

* (Yes, CSS does have a rough notion of absolute coordinates, but it's too screwed up to be practical. If it worked right, we wouldn't need the PDF standard.)
ohhhhh this is so rad then. You can definitely go from this to looking at total bench volume in a given span of time, which is an annoying thing other systems lack. Cool!
Kicking people off social media isn’t about free speech
More than you think. There are sensors everywhere and pretty much all of them are regularly uploading telemetry to the cloud. This goes much further than self driving cars, the entire CAN bus is constantly synced with the cloud, all sensors, vibration, tire pressure, etc. All in the name of predictive maintenance and whatnot.
> I sure as !@#$ won't fly on the 737 Max

Be warned then, when you book a flight, you get no guarantees of what airplane you'll actually fly on. You can be switched onto a different aircraft at the last moment, making your only choice to refuse to board, lost the cost of your ticket, and have to find another flight with the same risk.
We have had this happen twice as well. Maddening.
Does brazil have a 50c army like china now?

> then the party lost the next election.

with the running candidate jailed with obviously fabricated evidence and released last year with no conviction. All the while with whatsapp campaigns promoting pizza-gate like conspiracies.

> her VP served out the rest of her term

that I fully blame on the party picking an extremely right wing to be able to get elected. But don't make the soft coup less of a coup. The VP was choose to get support from the farmers and religious groups that control most of the interior of the country, and they payed the price for that.
boa and chase. neither is great. perhaps I need to look at web only banks
China pushes conspiracy theories on Covid origin, vaccines
Great link, thank you! That's precisely what I was looking for (and I highly recommend it to anyone else reading this thread). It does seem strange to me that we set the bar so high for defamation, but its one of those times where the trade-off is very clear, and it seems like in this particular case "reckless disregard for the truth" seems to fit extremely well.
California Activates 'MyTurn' Vaccine Clearinghouse Website for Residents
Can confirm re: ANC. It's good if you don't wear glasses. With glasses, it's fine but not better than the Sony WH1000XM3's I had before.

The sound quality is really good and I can actually wear these all day (the XM3s get hot after a few hours), so I put up with it.
That is correct. I've seen tabula/outbrain around on cnn/bbc/time etc until I blocked it and am aware that these publishers make use of taboola/outbrain for revenue. However, I was wondering what company puts the actual advert through these deceptive bottomfeeders.
It's a neat concept, but I think that 'both sides' doesn't work in a world with nuance, especially in a world where most (social) disputes are moral, teleological, or epistemological disagreements masking themselves as disputes of a factual nature. I don't think this format is particularly conducive to achieving persuasion, synthesis, or producing comparisons between equivalent perspectives (some people are just wrong, some peoples precepts are so fundamentally incompatible with each-other's that their perspectives are like apples and oranges).
The death spiral is caused by journalists putting their hands on the tiller.

If people are running around lying with partisan motivations, the most important thing you can have is a source of information trusted to be at least mostly objective. Someone to take the time to do the investigation and tell you what really happened in any given case, and carry good faith arguments from each side, not institutions that pick a side and defend them no matter what.

Because people lose trust in institutions with an obvious bias. And then what do you have? Twitter?
I mean, shouldn't they be trying to find a way to replace revenue loss from dropping gas usage? Presumably a good portion of that gas tax is going towards maintaining automobile-oriented infrastructure (roads bridges etc) which EVs also need.
The wealth they accumulated is absolutely inconsequential. All of their wealth would be equivalent to one year of state expenses worldwide at most. That changes nothing, and taking it away would only stop people from doing business, that is just bad for everyone. The state and the state alone has to step up its game, bullying billionaires won't help anything.
Please don't. Ideological flamewar is against the site guidelines and we ban accounts that do it.

Also, these generalizations are entirely in the eye of the beholder. They're a creation of your own passions, based on whatever data sample happened to activate them. This explains why the people with opposite passions to yours see HN in exactly the opposite way: it's a big enough place to encounter a data sample that will activate any pre-existing perception. I've written about this many times:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

If we're to have a community that doesn't suck, at some point we all need to understand these mechanisms well enough to avoid repeating them uncritically.
SARS and MERS as well, which is notably more relevant. These don't exist anymore.
> I just don't understand why people think it's bad for them to acknowledge the preferences of their users and make decisions accordingly.

Aside from that. Why on earth should we trust Google will limit their collection to this one method? They've lied over and over about what they collect. Been caught multiple times breaking laws to collect information only to say "Oops, it was a rough engineer". They've been caught bypassing the no-tracking flag in browsers. They've been caught abusing location data after users disabled it.

As the saying goes: Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me 750 times, why in the fuck am I still using Google?
Yes. This is the current state of "AI" at Google: a faulty regexp that matches "ASS" in "SSA, ASS, TTML" but not, from the issue description, in "(SSA/ASS)".
I’m not advocating for the supremacy of Sanskrit, merely pointing out established linguistic facts. Tamil is old, yes, and it’s age is impressive given that early Tamil is still legible to modern Tamil speakers. That does not mean that Tamil is 3500 years old.

For example, we have no attested inscriptions of Tamil that predate 5th century BC. We do have Vedic inscriptions from 1400BC: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_superstrate_in_Mi...
Don't worry, this is just the Google way: "act first, fix later". It's better to ban at the first sign of a problem, and then if something bad happened review and fix it.

Nothing to worry about, they also expect this from you, simply act first and if you are doing it wrong they will act...and ban...and disable your account...wait.

(They are the big, you are the small, they can, you don't)
I'm a cyclist who likes to complement cycling's lower-body workout with upper-body workouts in the gym or the pool. But since COVID I've been looking for an alternative I can do independently, either outdoors or at home.

Last spring I bought a barbell and some weights, and that helps. But I'd really like the same kind of interval workout for my upper-body as swimming provides.

I started looking into rowing machines recently and came to same conclusion as you - works most of your muscles, and provides both interval and resistance workouts. Seems perfect for the Corona Era.
The article can suggest whatever it wants.

If it actually worked long-term, it would be a published paper on PubMed and ophthalmologists would be readily prescribing it to their patients.

I'm not ruling out a temporary improvement in myopia from exercises. Sort of like squinting or putting eye drops in your eyes can temporarily make you less nearsighted.

But if there are positive, long-term effects from simple, harmless exercise (spoiler alert - you can't change the shape of your eye permanently with exercise like you can with a muscle), it would be part of eye doctor's treatment plans everywhere.

But it isn't, so it doesn't pass the smell test.
Ask HN: Who else hates living docs?
Living docs mean ever changing requirements and specs. You build your project against internal Living document only to come back next week to find out that there is something major different now.

How do you handle internal living docs which are changed on the whim without any decent heads up?
In other parts of the country you will freeze to death sleeping outside at night, so west coast cold is definitely relative.
> Punishing people for 15 years doesn’t change drunk driving.

It absolutely prevents the particular actor from driving drunk for the period of actual incarceration. It may even make it more likely that they will think before doing it again, even if they did not think the first time; and if you argue that the people who would do it once aren’t rationally deterrable even by adverse experience, that makes long-duration incapacitation such as by incarceration even more critical.
Yes, increasingly so. The froth of 2020 has led to a big increase in the use of SPACs, despite them previously being viewed as super sketchy.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/spac.asp
Deleted my Twitter after death threats over housing discussion
Oh, I didn't realize you were based in Finland - and only now realized why I've not seen any articles from the Deb adm site in a long while:

http://web.archive.org/web/20190325214351/https://debian-adm...

Without going too far side-tracked: I think the Arch wiki has demonstrated that a community wiki can be very useful - I do hope people continue to contribute to the Debian wiki (although I find myself mostly on Ubuntu of late).

Anyway, there's a certain path from phrack through debian-administration.org that maps out where I find myself today, so happy coincidence to see the two line up in the threads.
China is home to a growing market for dubious “emotion recognition” technology
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16863233

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9822637

Apparently not discussed at the time
Actually much faster than months. MRNA-based vaccines can be brewed up in days to weeks.
Whether you believe in Covid or not if you inhale the virus you may develop the decease. If you don't believe in guns you may find some nasty people in your house who do, and you will not be able to defend yourself.

The truth still reigns supreme, it is just that people sometimes suffer unnecessarily because they do not know what the truth is.
Yes we are a religious society. Our roots are in puritanism, in fact that's one of the main differentiators from the (Catholic-based) European countries from which we sprang.
COVID is different in that it appears to have numerous animals it can live in. It's one thing to lock down people, but another entirely to lockdown animals.
Hi! Co-author here. We do keep the nodes running 24/7, so Kubernetes still provides the scheduling to decide which nodes are free or not at any given time. Generally starting a container on a pre-warmed node is still much much faster than booting a VM. Also, some of our servers are bare-metal.

EDIT: Also don't discount the rest of the Kubernetes ecosystem. It's more than just a scheduler. It provides configuration, secrets management, healthchecks, self-healing, service discovery, ACLs... there are absolutely other ways to solve each of these things. But when starting from scratch there's a wide field of additional questions to answer, problems to solve.
Browser fingerprinting is already pretty good if you can run arbitrary JS on a site. Add access to a FLOC, even a FLOC with 10k people, and you're basically at a place that's worse than third-party cookies were, because at least third-party cookies could be blocked. Ad networks are already using fingerprinting and this will be seen as a blessing to them.
phase change maneuvers are expensive.
what works in Finland (giving people housing) definitely works in Los Angeles - LA was the subject of a recent research paper demonstrating the massive success of such a program

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H9oD3zeBPua7r5wFoHVrMZmmiqK...
Starlink's too low to offer reasonable coverage for orbital stations. Even payloads lower than the constellation (and there aren't many) would only see very small beams, and would pass through them quickly. And the laser system, I think you'd basically have to be co-orbital with them to work.

That would be a better product for the traditional GEO comsat operators, but apparently there's not enough market there for them to bother. NASA already has a system for that, TDRS. I wonder how busy it is nowadays?
> Anyone who has been in a tech support role has seen the bizarre cargo cult rituals that result from unpredictable failures.

I remember when “zapping the PRAM” was the solution for everything on classic Macs. (Maybe it still is?) It was a truly bizarre group-level tic. Literally any issue would be met with a stampede of experts bearing the magical key combo Cmd-Opt-P-R. I doubt anyone even knew what was in PRAM, but by god zapping it would fix your computer and neuter your cat.
https://www.arweave.org/yellow-paper.pdf
hybrids don't really offer much more efficiency over ICE, but they do add cost and complexity (more things to break). The good compromise is PHEV (plug in hybrid) since you get the efficiency of grid energy for short trips but retain the reliability and versatility of ICE.
But with work/university email, you only use it for work/university. It's not a social network. It's not like you are sharing a pic of your cat, and want to keep the replies after you move to another job.

After starting a new job, I don't care about my old job's emails, but my twitter (which is my social network) is still the same
> Apple now takes a 15% fee

Surely if there was real competition in the mobile app distribution market, we could see how efficient competitors can be with that 15% or less cut compared to Apple.

> and has a really good review process (updates are reviewed by humans within a day or two)

In this very thread, an iOS developer is lamenting the fact that their iOS app has been held in limbo for weeks by Apple reviewers[1]. It's responsible for 100% of their income, and Apple's arbitrary rules and reviewers are cutting into that.

That doesn't instill confidence in me that Apple has a really good review process at all. To me, it shows that we need real competition in the mobile app distribution space.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25907375
In many states, a dog indicating is used as the threshold of probable cause.
I find this fascinating. A bunch of autists on /r/WallStreetBets decided that GME was going to be the next rally...and the next rally it became. I can get behind this frantic anonymous pump and dump (though I wish they picked another company given how terrible GameStop was to their employees during COVID), but how will the market prevent this from happening?
To be fair, average life expectancy of people around that period (early to mid 1800s) was at best ~40, so "18" would have been basically middle-aged ;-)
Isn't there a period of time during this decline where you can't wear your normal corrective lenses because they are too strong? That sounds horrible.
It's quite simple: if one not be evil, one won't become or remain as big.

It's simple survival of the fittest. The lion who feels compassion for his prey will not pass his genes to the next generation.
> How often do consumers even get asked?

Purely anecdotal that I am drawing from -- I've had this discussion with quite a few non-tech folks over the last few years privacy/tracking has hit the zeitgeist.

Many dismissively state something like, "I know. Don't care. Means stuffs free right?", or "I'm not doing anything wrong, I don't care".

> That is like trying to identify a suspect using a smiley face. If they track you it isn't anonymous

By that I mean regulations around what they track, identifiable data, not being able to explicitly say User2021 === Josefx on the system. I think this is why Google is going with the 'cohorts' in their FloC approach.

> Why do we need targeted ads?

Good question. "Need", probably not. But if I am on facebook, and ads are going to happen, do I want highest bidder ads like "Find Hot Milks in your Area Now" interspersed between my feed's family baby photos or an add for "World's best Uncle" T-Shirts? There's a happy medium somewhere.
Seconding the recommendation.

One of the best things about AnonAddy is that it allows you to create aliases on the fly. So, I hardly even need to visit their website, browser extension or anything.
Let's not bury the real story

> Deplatforming can change cultural mores

Which from the perspective of some is the real problem.
The field of view from the satellite is 5000 km, though reception probably gets a lot worse at lower angles for a multitude of reasons. Hope I calculated right.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2*6300*arccos%286300%2...
If you give me a demographic group (age, sex, income, etc) of a thousand people, and give me the IP address I can uniquely identify the individual within that group using outside data sources like Experian.
Recent and related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25813601
Wall street bets is just exposing the facade of wallstreet. As more information about investing becomes available, hedge funds and investors will look increasingly less sophisticated. Platforms like Robinhood will erode their edge by increasing liquidity, lowering transaction costs, and providing access to more exotic investments and financial derivatives.
If you haven't already, I really wish you to hold one in your hands, soon.
The really wild vaccines use a self replicating viral vector. One of Merck's discontinued candidates used a live, replicating virus.

I guess if you really nail the science, you can make it infectious and vaccinate by breathing on people.
Something I never paid attention to is that the natural/ideal resting position of your jaw is that you teeth never touch, and your tongue is touching your upper palate just behind front teeth. I had issues with grinding teeth when younger. But at some point I adopted that position unconsciously.

This is a bit like resting breathing rate, the lower the better, but that's controlled completely unconsciously. Your lifestyle will influence it a lot though (exercise, relaxation, diet)
Religion's got nothing to do with it. Racial slurs are a subset of "profanity", and I wager that you support Google's desire to not have apps in their store which prominently feature racial slurs. Every culture has its "bad words" which are forbidden to use in polite company.

(Of course the actual app in question is still completely innocent, because Google's vetting process is a trash fire.)
I have been reading about myopia fixes through exercise for years. I see no significant evidence that its possible. I can't find an example of a SINGLE person in history that fixed the issue. E.g. Aldous Huxley never really did, despite writing the book that all current methods are based on.

On the other hand, doing a single-arm chin up seems impossible and takes a decade. Enough funds have not been put into research.
big chunks of antarctica where most of the research base population is located can see geostationary, just at a very low look angle. the whole peninsula, mcmurdo and places at similar latitudes to mcmurdo.

it's the pole that has problems seeing geostationary, and has up until very recently been totally dependent on 7-8 hours of coverage a day using big tracking antennas to talk to old geostationary satellites that have wandered somewhat out of their original orbits, so that from the POV of the earth station at pole, they can be communicated with part of the time.